Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...service commemorating the 108th anniversary of the Naval Chaplain Corps will be held today at noon in Andover Chapel at the Divinity School, Lt. Comdr. Florian W. Cassady will bring the message...
...father, Lockwood Kipling, had a job teaching art to the Indians. But India was regarded as an unhealthy place for growing boys, so at five he was boarded out in the home of a retired naval officer at Southsea, England. He was sent to the United Services College, and in Stalky & Co. wrote about it in one of the few procane, anti-self-pity books of schoolboy reminiscence ever to be produced. He was a prodigy and the only boy at school to wear glasses. They called him "Gigger" (for "giglamps," which was schoolboy slang for spectacles...
Text for Democracy. The victor in the elections was far from silent. Ngo Dinh Diem, a bachelor under a self-imposed oath of celibacy and a Roman Catholic among a predominantly Buddhist people, proclaimed South Viet Nam a republic and himself its first President. To the boom of a naval cannonade and amid a torchlight procession and fireworks, 54-year-old Diem spoke from the steps of Saigon's Independence Palace, flanked by his Cabinet, a battery of generals, two Catholic bishops and two Buddhist prelates. Said the new President: "Democ racy is not a group of texts...
Risky Course. The arms that Nasser needs are tanks, jet planes, heavy artillery and a few naval craft. Czechoslovakia's famed Skoda armament works, now named for Lenin and controlled by the Soviet army, is well equipped to supply most of the arms. But to make effective use of Czech weapons, the Egyptian army will be obliged to set up a maintenance supply line running back to Prague, and, therefore, to Moscow. Thus Russia can secure a linn and influential hold on an area hitherto dominated by the West...
...medical team from the Naval Medical Research Institute and the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory reported on the radioactive fallout that occurred over the Marshall Islands area in the spring of 1954 following a thermonuclear-bomb test explosion. Findings: 1) the blast apparently did no permanent damage to Marshallese; 2) skin lesions and loss of hair developed in 90% of the group two weeks after exposure, but both conditions disappeared quickly...